Steven_Vellon

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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
What's wrong with it? The End user license agreement is the document explicitly dedicated to explaining how the interaction between the user and the software will work. If a company explains how the data will be used and the user conse
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
If there was an easily defined definition of "respecting users data" the we wouldn't be in this situation. Plenty of people think putting a clause in the EULA that says user data can be monetized is being respectful of user d
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Some, perhaps, but nowhere near the figure given ($5trn). Saying that they'es $5 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies makes people think that if we just cut these subsidies then we'd have $5 trillion of spare cash. That's not th
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Do we make solar PV companies to pay into funds for people who get sick from heavy metal poisoning (which does happen and is expected to continue happening, it turns out solar is cheaper if you ship the waste to a third world country)? Do h
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
2004, 2006, and 2007 for Dawn of War, CoH, and SC respectively. More well known titles like Red Alert 2, Command and Conquer Generals, and Warcraft 3 were even earlier than that. Starcraft 2 was the last "AAA" RTS game that I can
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Is confidential mode actually trying to sell itself as an encrypted email service? Google's articles about confidential mode doesn't mention encryption [1], so I'm not sure why tutanota is focusing so much on the lack of encr
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
There are some variations of fizzbuzz that have you print out the number of iterations performed at that point on each line. The memory consumption could still be predetermined, but the math is a bit more complicated. Other variations have
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
What I'm getting at, though, is that it's possible to implement it without any copies even if the memory consumption cannot be predetermined. Bypass malloc() and realloc() entirely and invoke brk() to increase the program's s
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
String formatting libraries, and other things that work with buffers are frequent attack surfaces for buffer overflow attacks. Granted, using C means developers often implement these operations themselves which introduces the possibility of
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
In that case, you need to test if the memory is contiguous and copy to the new pointer if not. O(N^2) in the worst case, where every memory allocation returns a distinct start pointer. What I was getting at is that in virtual memory the hea
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Is it not possible to keep allocating contiguous memory? Just keep appending to the string and allocating more memory. Repeated calls to malloc are not guaranteed to be contiguous but I think you can do this with posix_memalign. Just keep g
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
True, if animal based oil is used then anything that gets fried is rendered non-vegan.
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
I speculate that veganism and vegetarianism is strongly correlated with food health consciousness in general, thus fostering a sense of equivalency between veganism and vegetarianism with "healthy". French fries are vegan. Maple s
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Scholars speculate that Shenzhen may have been the fastest growing urban center in human history. The growth is staggering, with the population rising from 1.5 million in 1990 to just over 10 million in 2010. Imagine the entirety of Washing
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
A lot of C developers I know see value in keeping the C standard library small. I implemented my own `l_string` (length-string) struct and associated libraries for a class (we weren't allowed to use external libraries) and it was not p
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
CNN's reporting was better: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/08/europe/france-heat-wave-death... They report that the mortality rate was 9% higher than baseline during the heat wave.